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Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, will visit Toronto, Kingston and Barrie next month on a four-day tour to regiments of which she’s colonel-in-chief.

Queen Elizabeth’s daughter will lay a wreath at the Vimy War Memorial in Kingston on Oct. 24.

The day before that, Anne will attend a reception at Queen’s Park and take part in a Duke of Edinburgh study conference.

Considered the hardest working royal after her mother, Anne has a distinctly Canadian connection. Her grandchildren — the Queen’s great-grandchildren — are Canadian.

Anne’s son, Peter Phillips, is married to Autumn Kelly from Montreal.

The couple’s two daughters, Savannah and Isla, hold dual Canadian and British citizenship.

Anne’s first husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, did not take a royal title offered by the Queen. As a result, Anne’s children, Peter and Zara, do not have royal titles, which is most unusual for grandchildren of a monarch.

Respected for her charitable work, Princess Anne, 63, is a patron of more than 200 charities and puts in long hours supporting them. While she keeps a low profile, she routinely fulfils more than 500 royal engagements every year.

Her jam-packed four-day schedule in Ontario includes several events at the Canadian Forces Base in Kingston.

In Barrie, as colonel-in-chief, Canadian Forces Medical Branch, Anne will visit the Canadian Forces Medical Services Training Centre at Base Borden, Oct. 23.

As colonel-in-chief, Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Branch, Anne will attend a 33 Signals Foundation Dinner at the National Club in Toronto on Oct. 24.